Mainframes, client/server applications, homegrown applications, and other various legacy applications are often not ideal candidates for lift and shift migrations to the cloud. Effectual’s Modernization Assessment follows a proven process to assess, identify, and document opportunities to reduce technical debt and provide you with a roadmap for a successful transformation

What we do: In this 4–6-week engagement (dependent on size of existing environment(s)), Effectual will partner with you to review your application portfolio, gather business and technical requirements, and produce an assessment report summarizing our findings and detailing the best approach for your business’s modernization strategy.

Execution: Data Collection:

• We utilize tooling to gather data about your environment(s) over a minimum of 2 weeks in order to provide the most comprehensive assessment

Assess and Documentation

• Application Portfolio Review

• Infrastructure and Operational Assessment

• Migration Planning and Cost and Impact Analysis

• Business Case Development

• Read out to review findings

• Provide Action Plan detailing recommended next steps

Understand Modernization Options for your Environment: Cloud-Native:

• Modern alternatives for services that need to operate 100% of the time and technologies like database, messaging, logging, object storage, and more.

Serverless:

• Dramatically reduce run-time cost and leverage a fully scalable and resilient technology

Containers:

• As an alternative to serverless, containers are a perfect option to package applications providing cost-effective scale and resiliency